Project Knowledge Management : Systematic Learning with the Project Comparison Technique

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-165)and index

Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Part I Theory; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Content of this Publication; 1.2 Reason and Purpose of Project Comparison Technique; 1.3 Similarity of Projects; 1.4 Relativity of Results; 1.5 Methods of Computing; 1.6 Initial and Final Data of Projects; 1.7 Presentation of the Material; 2 Breakdown of Project Objective; 2.1 Basic Objective Structure; 2.2 Expanded and Reduced Objective Structures; 2.3 Goals; 2.3.1 Freedom of Choice; 2.3.2 Base-Goals and Check-Goals; 2.4 Goal Weights; 2.5 Forms and Values of Goals and Goal Weights; 3 Partial Comparison

3.1 The Term Partial Comparison3.2 Parameters; 3.3 Targets and Influences; 3.4 Scatter Value and Guide Value; 3.5 Supplementing the Scatter Value; 3.5.1 Sign Rule; 3.5.2 Standardization of Variation; 3.5.3 Scale Constant; 3.6 Difficulty and Keeping; 3.7 Additional Example for Partial Comparison; 3.8 Including Several Parameters; 3.9 Partial Comparison Without Parameters; 4 Introduction to Terminology; 5 Total Comparison; 5.1 Extending the Notions Difficulty and Keeping; 5.1.1 Within the Basic Objective Structure; 5.1.2 Within an Extended Objective Structure

5.2 Goodness: Concept and Characteristics5.2.1 The Goodness Concept; 5.2.2 Within the Basic Objective Structure; 5.2.3 Within an Extended Objective Structure; 5.3 Classification of Terms; 6 Comparison Typology; 6.1 Types of Comparisons by Data Combinations; 6.2 Including Quasi-Parameters; 6.3 Descriptive and Inferential Comparisons; 6.4 Initial and Final Comparisons; 6.5 Comprehensive Terminology; 7 Correction for Cost, Price, and Working-Time Index; 8 Mathematical Issues of Partial Comparisons; 8.1 Balance Function; 8.2 Transformations; 8.3 Standard Deviation of Scatter Values

8.4 Methodological Conditions and Steps of Parametric Partial Comparisons8.5 Realization Probability of Project Objectives; 8.6 Parametric Project Model; 8.7 Difficulty as a Quasi-Parameter; 8.8 The Systematics of Terminology; Part II Application; 9 177 Projects as an Example; 9.1 Contents and Settings; 9.2 Product Range; 9.3 Project Realization and Organization; 9.3.1 Phases; Conceptual Phase:; Development Phase:; Production Engineering Phase:; Production Start-Up:; Note:; 9.3.2 Project Features; 9.3.3 Project Management; 10 Collecting, Keeping, and Processing Data; 10.1 Origin

10.2 The Concept of Collected Variables10.2.1 Overview; 10.2.2 Details; 10.3 Collection Stages and Reference Lists; 10.4 File Structure and Evaluation Tools; 10.5 Data Errors; 11 Total Comparison of all 177 Projects; 11.1 Purpose; 11.2 Goals and Goal Weights; 11.3 Parameters; 11.4 Balance Functions and Result Plots; 11.5 Statistics Issues; Part III Utilization; 12 Presenting Comparison Results; 12.1 General Considerations; 12.2 Comparison Tables; 12.3 Star Charts; 12.4 Planning Charts; 12.5 Time Series and Trend Charts; 13 Application Issues; 13.1 Getting the Parameters

13.1.1 How to Search for Parameters

10.1007/978-3-540-92794-5 [DOI]

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